New demo!

Demo won't start on my pc. When i click shortcut screen goes black and turns back to normal after 1sec. specs a64 x2 and 7800gt.

 

In Win98 compatibility mode it ran well. Very nice work!

 

Some antivirus/firewall programs prevent programs from starting other programs. Depending on the settings of your firewall/antivirus software you will be prompted if you want to allow a program to start another program or the antivirus/firewall will just silently deny it. Many installation programs need to launch other programs during the install process. So if you antivirus/firewall prevents this, your install will fail.

 

Runs very well on my 9800pro all things considered. Even at 1280 x 1024 with 4xAA it maintains 40fps in many parts.

I'm using cat 5.11 btw.

 

Nice demo Humus: your visibility preprocessing work it's someway similar to this:
Directional Discretized Occluders for Accelerated Occlusion Culling
Dunno if you know this work but it's worth reading.

btw, are you using conservative rasterization to make sure the visibility preprocess is not erroneously culling away visibile meshes?

 

GameEngine2.rpt (report?)

this is what is inside:

********************************

Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION
Fault address: 00CEBC4D 01:0000AC4D C:\WINDOWS\system32\ct_oal.dll

Registers:
EAX:00000000
EBX:00000000
ECX:00000533
EDX:00EC0000
ESI:00DC0048
EDI:00ED2000
CS:EIP:001B:00CEBC4D
SS:ESP:0023:0012EF68 EBP:00000000
DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:003B GS:0000
Flags:00010246

 

works here with 6800 GT and nVidia 81.95 without problems
also working with Mobility X700 with 5.11 x64

Well done, works smooth on both, and looks great

 

Humy why are the angled shadows so jagged?

(X1800XT/Cats 5.12 6xFSAA/16x AF)

 

SB Audigy 2 ZS

7/10/2003
5.12.6.402

That's what I could find...

 

A good time to update the sound card drivers, yes?

 

Good thinking

BTW

I love your new demo, and I’m curious is there some trivial explanation why are the PDM (Parallax Displacement Maps) are noticeable becoming flat on corners? Besides that little “dispellingâ€￾ your PDM is great! Could be possible to sustain acceptable frame rate with little more complex levels, and that PDM of yours?

I’m asking this, ‘cos I think that PDM is equally important as say HDR, maybe even more IMHO! And I totally disagree with FutureMark guy in that interview where he’s trying to explain why they are excluded PDR from 3DM 06!

 

Those came with the latest non-Beta drivers. Forgive me if I don't trust beta drivers from Creative.

 

aye parrallax >= HDR i dont think so! parrallax is a hack IMO often ugly
good stuff humus, youre demos are about the only ones i bother downloading
one change u could make which will double the framerate at least i guess (it is a bit of extra work though)
after youve checked what cells are visable from your visability list
each frame use occlusion test (when u lay down depth pass) check if a light areas receiver/casters meshs are visable, itll save time by not creating unecessary SMs if they dont influence the scene
*another speedup is to use different size SMs based on a light areas screensize (im sure u know this but havent done it due to the old bugbear time/effort)

 

this is benificial for static lights too once (if?) u start adding dynamic objects players etc

youll be surprised, from my testing it happens far oftener(new word) than i thought